intensatev.
/ɪnˈtɛnseɪt/ rare.
transitive. To make intense; to intensify.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] > increase the intensity of
multiplya1398
sharpenc1450
heighten1523
height1528
strengthen1546
aggravate1549
enhance1559
intend1603
enrich1620
re-enforce1625
wheel1632
reinforce1660
support1691
richen1795
to give a weight to1796
intensify1817
exalt1850
intensate1856
to step up1920
to hot up1937
ramp1981
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 58 To intensate the influences that are not of race.
1870 J. G. Whittier in S. T. Pickard Life & Lett. J. G. Whittier (1894) II. 567 Perhaps a sense of insecurity in their possession..intensates the love I feel for them.
Derivatives
inˈtensated adj.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > increasing in intensity or degree > increased in intensity or degree
strengthened1578
intended1590
exasperate1601
intenseda1658
aggrandized1689
heightened1701
intensated1831
intensified1862
stepped1933
1831 T. Carlyle Early German Lit. in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1872) III. 202 Like an infinitely intensated organ of Speech.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. v. i. 289 In colours all intensated, the sublime, the ludicrous, the horrible succeed one another.
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